Augean, one of the UK's leading specialist waste management businesses, is seeking to claw back £11.1m of landfill tax it has paid, following successful legal challenges to HMRC rulings brought by other operators

The government has bowed to pressure to address the additional costs of working from home during the coronavirus crisis, and has announced a temporary tax exemption and National Insurance disregard to ensure that home office equipment purchase by employees will not attract tax and NICs liabilities where reimbursed by the employer

Two thirds of SMEs may not be able to pay their deferred tax liabilities in six months’ time, while many are still waiting to access government grants and loans, a poll by ACCA has found

In this edition of VAT updates, Graham Elliott considers HMRC’s VAT easements, a suppression of sales case and the challenging concept of fiscal neutrality

Yvette Nunn, Berkeley Associates director, looks at possible fallout from Covid-19, including capital gains changes for homeowners, help for the self employed and how identifying ‘shopping’ on bank statements could make a difference

While deferred VAT payments has been used by governments in Europe to ease the financial burden of struggling businesses in their own countries, an inconsistent approach is creating a confusing picture, argues Accordance’s Andy Spencer

 HMRC has won an Upper Tribunal appeal over a bid by the Royal Opera House to include ice cream and champagne sales at the venue when recovering VAT input tax associated with its production costs

Denmark and Poland are the first EU countries to refuse to pay taxpayer funded grants to giant multinationals with head offices registered in tax havens, reports Pat Sweet

Multimillionaire Sir Richard Branson has been told that the government is not prepared to hand out a £500m bailout loan for Virgin Atlantic, the airline in which he owns a minority 20% stake, with majority shares held by EU and US owned carriers

Tech giant Google paid just £44.3m in corporation tax despite posting revenues of £1.6bn last year, while giving employees more than £1bn in pay and bonuses, accounts for its UK subsidiary show

Businesses in Northern Ireland will be able to access a mix of UK-wide coronavirus support schemes and specific measures announced by the devolved Stormont Assembly to reduce the impact of the covid-19 pandemic

The government is to provide a £397m package for bus operators to keep key routes running for frontline workers during the current pandemic